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(I) BY THE FORTRESS OF LOUISBOURG / PAR FORTERESSE-DE-LOUISBOURG

DATABASES

Source: French/Français 

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PARISH RECORDS/ REGISTRES PAROISSIAUX (Colonial Louisbourg Parish Recordings of Births, Deaths, and Marriages at Louisbourg, 1713 to 1758 - **NAMES ONLY** / Registres paroissiaux (baptêmes, mariages, et enterrements) de Louisbourg, de 1713 à 1758 - **NE FAIT QUE DE NOM**)                                ***name order explanation***

Source: French/English and/et Anglais/Français
  
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ADDITIONAL NAMES/NOMS ADDITIONNELS (Excludes Parish Records File Names and Select Index Names / Non compris les noms dans les registres paroissiaux)

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SELECT INDEXES / INDEX SELECTIONNE (A Select Combined Finding Aid to English Manuscripts / Guide aux manuscrits en langue anglaise)

Source: French/Français
  
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SELECT INDEXES / INDEXE SELECTIONNE (A Select Combined Finding Aid to French Manuscripts / Guide aux manuscrits en langue française)

Source: French/Français [Many reports in English]
  
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LOUISBOURG AND ISLE ROYALE PROPERTIES / DESCRIPTIONS DES PROPRIETES DE LOUISBOURG ET ISLE ROYALE (Descriptions of Properties, Landscapes and Associated Constructions / Descriptions des propriétés et des constructions de Louisbourg)

Source: French/Français
   
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Archives Nationales, Séries B and CllB French Abstracts - 1713-1721 portion completed of the series 1713-1758)

Source: French/Français [English Translation]
  
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Laroque Census (Isle Royale and Isle St. Jean)~ 1752 - English Translation 

Source: French/Français
  
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Fortress of Louisbourg Census Materials - INSTRUCTIONS: Type the Word Census in the "Search all Fields All at Once" at the bottom of the Form 

French/English and/et Anglais/Français

Note - The rest of the databases are available at:

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  Databases ~ Fortress of Louisbourg / Base de Données ~ Forteresse-de-Louisbourg

SELECT HTML TEXT FILES

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Gibson Clough Journal, 1759-1765, Draft Transcription by Rosemary Hutchinson (Fortress of Louisbourg, Undated)

Source: French/English and/et Anglais/Français
  
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The Journals, Diaries, and Accounts of Louisbourg and Isle Royale (1713-1768)  by Eric Krause (Krause House Info-Research Solutions, 2002-present)

Source: English/Anglais
  
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Lawrence Kavanagh (1764-1830), Agenda Paper 1969-26, Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada

Source: French/Français
  
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NAMES/NOMS - Selection List: Archives Nationales, Dossiers Personnels, Archives des Colonies et de la Marine ~ Colonie E et Marine C7, Unpublished Report H J 20 by Fortress of Louisbourg (Fortress of Louisbourg, Not Dated)

Source: English/Anglais

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Return of 1st Company 1st Rgt., Cape Breton Militia, Main-A-Dieu, 20th April 1846

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PRIVATE SITES ON fortress.uccb.ns.ca

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Cape Breton Cemeteries by Sandra Ferguson 
[Note: This database presently lists 1,957 cemetery stones / markers - or 3,981 names/without names]

Source: English/Anglais
  
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The Samuel Sparrow Home Page ~ 18th-Century Cape Breton Island

GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH MATERIALS ON 
THE TOWN OF LOUISBOURG

Source: English/Anglais
 
1861 census of Louisbourg
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http://www3.sympatico.ca/dr.reid/cbfamilies1861cbc.html#louis

EXTERNAL LINKS

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Acadian-Cajun Genealogy & History
  

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Acadian and French Canadian Acadian Ancestral Home 
  

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Allan Jost's Site: Descendants and other relations of Johann Georg Jost 
  

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An Acadian Parish Remembered ~ The Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, 1702-1755 / Une paroisse acadienne rappelée
    

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Beaton Institute (Cape Breton University)
  

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Bienvenue chez Ch. Lagarrigue ~ De Blaye en Gironde (France) à Louisbourg (Isle Royale aujourd'hui Nouvelle Ecosse), en passant par St Domingue, je vous propose de découvrir la vie de Pierre Morpain, corsaire et Capitaine de Port. 1686-1749
  

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Caomhánach ~ The Origin and Early History Of The Kavanagh Family
  

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Cape Breton Counties Genealogy 
   

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Centre D'Études Acadiennes (Université de Moncton)
     

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Claude Charles Denys de Bonnaventure, le Capitaine de Vaisseau du Roy, né a Louisbourg
  

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La Famille de Verteuil [May I also mention to you that if Pelagie de Butler married Claude Charles Denys de Bonnaventure, her brother (my grand father's grand father) was married to a Pauline de Verteuil. Her family came also from Louisbourg where her grand father Jacques Alexis de Verteuil and her grand mother Joseph Marie Dupont du Vivier de Gourville were married in 1754. [Source: SoHo Museum]. It has been impossible to locate any portrait prior to 1800 as the Verteuil family was nearly wiped out during the French revolution and lost everything. As a matter of fact this family is today present in Trinidad, Canada and other parts of the world but not in France but for another distant branch. Best regards. Ralph de Butler]

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Louisbourg - Louisiana Connections 
  

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Les registres de St. Jean-Baptiste Annapolis Royal, 1702-1755
  

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Roots Cape Breton 
  

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Rousseau de Chamoy
  

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Rousseau de Villejoin et Charmoy  (The biggest French database of this type. For example, here you will find the Rousseau de Villejoin)
  

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Scottish and French 
  

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Where the Currant Bushes Grow by Robert Paton Harvey: An Introduction to the Sackville Fultzes [... Four of those "59 souls" who are recorded as "German Protestants" among the Louisbourg French were members of a Fultz family consisting of Johann (John), his wife Elizabeth, and two sons, Lorenz (Lawrence) and Antony (Anthony). Likely they lived along the Mira River near Rouille in the "village des Allemands." These deserters from Nova Scotia evidently believed that they would be more at home under the French Roman Catholic rule on Isle Royale than in a Nova Scotia which was being given not only a British, but also a Protestant foundation, after the founding of Halifax in 1749. Writing of this strange discovery at Louisbourg, one commentator has remarked, by way of explanation, that while most of the "foreign Protestants became loyal British citizens…several Germans, who had registered as Protestant emigrants, were actually Roman Catholic…most of [whom] grew discontented and deserted to the French Isle Royale." Having left their homeland to better themselves, and having assumed the guise of Protestants, in order to conform to one of the immigration requirements, these new arrivals were no doubt unhappy to see their Catholicism barely tolerated in the new world.
It is certain that the Johann Fultz found at Louisbourg was the father of Anthony, who was born on the French-held island in 1757 and who would later bring up a large and interesting family in Sackville. Anthony records as much, in an 1809 petition requesting land from the Crown ...]

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ARCHIVES/LIBRARIES/MUSEUMS

 

CanadaFrance Archives Database       Archives Canada-France base de données

Bibliothèque national du Québec

National Archives of Canada / Archives nationales du Canada
  

National Library of Canada / Bibliotheque nationale du Canada
    

National Library of Scotland
  

Public Record Office (United Kingdom)